''Concise, well constructed, entertaining and eminently readable'' - Architects' Journal
Introduction - 1. Aims and Ambitions - 2. Art, Crafts, Architecture and the Academies 3. Art Education Reformed - 4. The Founder - 5. Problems - 6. The First Appointments 7. The Students - 8. Achievements - 9. New Arrivals - 10. The Basic Course: Colour and Form - 11. Going Dutch - 12. Towards a New Unity: Moholy-Nagy and Albers - 13. The Public Face - 14. Dessau - 15. Young Masters - 16. A New Director - 17. The Bitter End 18. Judgments
Dr Frank Whitford was an art historian and critic, and one of Britain's leading experts on 20th-century German and Austrian art. During his varied career, he lectured on the history of art at University College London and Homerton College, Cambridge, wrote several books and served as a newspaper art critic. From 1983 onwards he was a senior member of Wolfson College, Cambridge.